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Details the Spanish, French and British discovery, colonization, and history of the central United States to 1846

Volume 1. First Spanish discoveries in Florida 1512 to 1538 -- Invasion of Florida by Hernando de Soto 1539 to 1540 -- The Spanish expedition east of the Mississippi 1540 to 1541 -- The Spanish expedition west of the Mississippi 1541 to 1543 00 Early extent and settlements, with the subsequent boundaries and sovereignty of Florida 1544 to 1845 -- Advances of the French upon the St. Lawrence, and discovery of the Mississippi 1608 to 1673 -- Exploration of the Mississippi River by La Salle: his colony on the Colorado 1673 to 1696 -- Advance of the French settlements from Canada upon the Upper Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to the close of the French war 1696 to 1764 -- The manners and customs of the early French setters in the Illinois country 1700 to 1780 -- The first colonization of Louisiana until the close of Crozat's monopoly 1698 to 1717 -- Louisiana under the Western Company until the failure of Law's Mississippi scheme 1717 to 1722 -- Louisiana under the Western Company until the failure of Law's Mississippi scheme to the Natchez Massacre 1723 to 1729 -- Louisiana under the Western Company after the Natchez massacre: extermination of the Natchez tribes 1729 to 1733 -- Louisiana under the royal governors until the close of the Chickasa War 1733 to 1741 -- Condition of Louisiana from the close of the Chickasa War until the termination fo the French dominion 1741 to 1764 -- Expulsion of the French from the Ohio region: Indian hostilities until the close of Pontaiac's war 1757 to 1764 -- Advance of the Anglo-American population to the Ohio River: settlements and explorations 1765 to 1774 -- Lord Dunmore's Indian War: extension of the western settlements from the treaty of Camp Charlotte to the Declaration of Independence 1774 to 1776 -- British occupancy of Florida and the Illinois country: close of the British dominion in the Mississippi Valley 1764 to 1782 -- Louisiana under the dominion of Spain from the dismemberment to the expulsion of the English from Florida 1763 to 1783 -- Louisiana under the Spanish dominion, from the Treaty of 1783 to the year 1796 -- Political relations of Louisiana with the United States, from the Treaty of 1783 to the Treaty of Madrid -- Political relations between the United States and Louisiana, from the Treaty of Madrid to the surrender of the Natchez district 1796 to 1798 -- Close of the Spanish dominion in Louisiana, and the final transfer of the province to the United States 1797 to 1804

Volume 2: Manners and customs of the frontier population east and south of the Ohio River 1770 to 1810 -- Indian warfare, and its effects upon the frontier people: eminent pioneers of Kentucky 1775 to 1794 -- Extension of Virginia settlements and jurisdiction to the Mississippi: Indian hostilities upon the Ohio 1776 to 1780 -- Indian wars on the Ohio: extension of the American settlements east and south of the Ohio 1781 to 1784 -- Indian hostilities on the Ohio: predatory incursions into Kentucky and partisan warfare 1785 to 1793 -- Political condition of the :district of Kentucky" from 1783 until its admission into the federal union as an independent state 1783 to 1794 -- The early settlement and political condition of western Pennsylvania 1783 to 1796 -- Indian relations and treaties with the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Treaty of Greenville 1783 to 1795 -- Extension of the first white settlements across the Ohio until the close of the Indian wars 1787 to 1794 -- Early settlement and Indian hostilities in the southwestern territory until its admission into the federal union as the state of Tennessee 1776 to 1796 -- Indian wars and military operations by the United States north of the Ohio River 1787 to 1795 -- Advances of the white population int the northwestern territory: admission of the state of Ohio into the federal union 1795 to 1801 -- The Mississippi territory from its first organization to the commencement of the Creek War 1798 to 1813 -- The Mississippi territory from the beginning of the Creek War until the admission of the states of Mississippi and Alabama int the federal Union 1813 to 1819 -- The territory of Orleans from its first organization until after its admission into the Union as the state of Louisiana 1804 to 1815 -- Progressive extension of the federal jurisdiction over the northwestern territory to the Mississippi 1800 to 1845 -- Extension of the federal union west of the Mississippi and the re-annexation of Texas 1803 to 1846

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